Over the last year, administrators, university officials and former football players at Mansfield (Pa.) University brainstormed ways to bring back the football program. The solution: Think smaller. As in 172 pounds or less. Mansfield recently announced that it will join the College Sprint Football League (CSFL) in 2008. Sprint football uses the same rules as its parent sport, except it requires that no player exceeds 172 pounds.

As floodwaters from a brutal nor'easter slowly receded in parts of New Jersey, disaster response teams fanned out to begin the process of tallying the damage. The death toll in New Jersey rose to three when a body believed to be that of a 44-year-old Mahwah woman was found in a submerged car.